By Shelley Whiddon, Vice President, Corporate Affairs and Chief Communications Officer
Blog
Wherever challenges lurk, opportunities exist for positive change.
That’s always been true, but 2020 has cast an even brighter light on global issues and our capacity for solving these vexing problems.
COVID-19. Social injustice. Rampaging wildfires. Devastating hurricanes.
The trials we as a society face are many, but our capacity for taking meaningful action is unlimited. Especially when the business community steps in and tackles these problems collaboratively.
Columbus-based Alliance Data to fund comprehensive campaign that includes the development of a digital analytics platform to help reduce hunger in 20 counties; Alliance Data associates to volunteer data analytics expertise and support
But truth be told, every day is Financial Awareness Day at Junior Achievement (JA). For decades, the non-profit has worked to equip tomorrow's leaders – students in elementary school through high school – with financial and entrepreneurial tools to build meaningful careers and successful lives.
As the world grapples with the COVID-19 pandemic, personal finances and purchasing habits have changed abruptly and dramatically for nearly everyone. More people are working – and buying – from home. Many are spending more consciously, while others, sadly, are facing unemployment, furloughs or a reduced income.
International Women’s Day celebrates the accomplishments of women, while recognizing the ongoing need to close the gap in gender equality. The 2020 International Women’s Day theme is #EachforEqual, meaning collectively, everyone plays an important role in creating a gender equal world. Alliance Data’s efforts to foster an environment of diversity, equality and inclusion has been recognized within the Company (62 percent of the global workforce is made up of women) and beyond.
Data privacy was a major topic among financial services and technology leaders at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting last week in Davos, Switzerland. Google CEO Sundar Pichai asserted that in 2020, privacy should not and cannot be a “luxury good.”
In recognition of International Data Privacy Day on January 28th, Alliance Data’s Chief Security Officer Mike Britton highlights a few changing industry trends around data privacy and why the issue is so central to the company’s values and obligations.
As a company with clients, end-consumers and associates around the world, Alliance Data works to reflect the diversity of the markets it serves and embraces different backgrounds, viewpoints, skills and talents. At the Board and leadership levels, there has been a specific focus on promoting gender skills and diversity. While demographics have been the focus of associate diversity efforts in the past, recently the Alliance Data Board of Directors has been briefed on a more comprehensive view of the Company’s diversity efforts, including gender make-up, gender leadership and pay equity. With the majority of Alliance Data’s workforce and cardmembers made up of women, Alliance Data is proud of its diversity, equality and inclusion efforts that recently earned the Company a spot on the 2020 Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index for the second consecutive year.
Press Release
As a company with clients, end-consumers and associates around the world, Alliance Data works to reflect the diversity of the markets it serves and embraces different backgrounds, viewpoints, skills and talents. At the Board and leadership levels, there has been a specific focus on promoting gender skills and diversity. While demographics have been the focus of associate diversity efforts in the past, recently the Alliance Data Board of Directors has been briefed on a more comprehensive view of the Company’s diversity efforts, including gender make-up, gender leadership and pay equity. With the majority of Alliance Data’s workforce and cardmembers made up of women, Alliance Data is proud of its diversity, equality and inclusion efforts that recently earned the Company a spot on the 2020 Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index for the second consecutive year.
December 20, 2019 /3BL Media/ - Alliance Data has been named a Best Workplace for Diversity by Great Place to Work and FORTUNE for the fourth consecutive year! Coming in at 71 on this year’s list, Alliance Data is proud of its inclusive, respectful workplace that develops and empowers associates, resulting in 84 percent of employees saying Alliance Data is a great place to work.
In many communities, students who are on a free or reduced cost lunch program at school go hungry over winter break when they are out of the classroom for an extended period of time. Every year during the holiday season, Alliance Data associates in Columbus, Ohio come together at the Company’s Holiday Give Back event to help eliminate this issue. Associates work together to bundle 1,500 care packages filled with food and deliver them to students at local schools to take home and share with their families over the break.
